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House prices during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how house prices changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Jens Stoltenberg 17 Oct 2005 – 16 Oct 2013 +66.2% Q3 2005 → Q3 2013+6.6%/yr
2 Erna Solberg 16 Oct 2013 – 14 Oct 2021 +48.2% Q3 2013 → Q3 2021+5.0%/yr
3 Kjell Magne Bondevik 17 Oct 1997 – 17 Mar 2000 +28.3% Q3 1997 → Q4 1999+11.7%/yr
4 Kjell Magne Bondevik 19 Oct 2001 – 17 Oct 2005 +27.4% Q3 2001 → Q3 2005+6.2%/yr
5 Jens Stoltenberg 17 Mar 2000 – 19 Oct 2001 +18.5% Q4 1999 → Q3 2001+10.2%/yr
6 Jonas Gahr Støre 14 Oct 2021 – now +16.0% Q3 2021 → Q3 2026+3.0%/yr
7 Thorbjørn Jagland 25 Oct 1996 – 17 Oct 1997 +12.2% Q3 1996 → Q3 1997+12.2%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. index, 2015 = 100 · Statistics Norway, price index for existing dwellings (table 07221), the whole country, every type of dwelling, not seasonally adjusted, not adjusted for inflation, from 1992 · Norway data · as of Oct 2026.

Sources: Statistics Norway (quarterly national accounts, Labour Force Survey, employment and wages, consumer prices, house prices, population; Oslo's population, regional accounts, register-based employment and unemployment, earnings and offences reported to the police), Norges Bank (exchange rate), Norges Bank Investment Management (the Government Pension Fund Global's value), US Energy Information Administration (crude oil output), GISCO, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; prime ministers checked against the official lists, Oslo's governing mayors against the city's own list. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy